In 1972 UNESCO adopted the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Convention, which aims to protect heritage properties of outstanding universal value. In 1976, the World Heritage Committee and the World Heritage Fund, as determined by the text of the Convention, were established. In 1979, the first inscriptions of properties on the World Heritage List were made. In 1992, the World Heritage Centre was established, an autonomous body of the UNESCO Secretariat charged with the administrative management of matters related to the World Heritage Convention.

Portugal deposited its instrument of ratification on 30 September 1980.

Portugal has 17 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. Find out more by clicking on each one:

See here the World Heritage List.

Find out more at the website of the UNESCO National Commission in Portugal.

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